Movable dungeon terrain

[iago]

My buddies and I started a D&D campaign recently. It's my first time playing D&D, or any game where we've made significant use of miniatures, so it was an interesting one. The problem, however, is that we put our miniatures on a plain grid, and use whatever's laying around to make rooms. "Ok, these pencils are the walls, and this paint jug is the door". That's no good!

So this weekend, I decided to do a quick dungeon project. Well, quicker than other stuff I've built, anyways. Tedious, of nothing else.. I watched almost the whole first season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent while making these. 14 episodes =~ 12 hours.

Anyway, I took pictures of the finished works. The walls and floor are foam insulation, and the doors are textured plasticard on small MDF bases. I didn't have the foresight to do WiP shots while I was building it, sadly, so all you get is the finished product. Here are what I built:
4 x 6" walls
4 x 5" walls
4 x 4" walls
4 x 3" walls
5 doors
2' x 2' base

I set up a quick pair of rooms using most of the walls/doors. Here it is:

[Wirelizard]

Nicely done - always nice when "quick" terrain projects turn out so well, isn't it?

[iago]

Definitely!

And even though it's the fastest terrain I've thrown together, I'll bet it'll get the most use.

[twrchtrwyth]

That looks very effective. Doesn't look that different from some professional terrain I've seen. The cow monster is quite scary to!

[lethallee61]

Yeah - those cows are vicious if you make them angry.

Reminds me of an old favourite - anyone else played "Battle Cattle" ?

BTW - nice work on the scenery.

[Argonor]

Very nice very useable terrain... 

If I could just get my hands on some insulation foam. Sadly, it's not legal to use it (for insulation) in DK, and thus it's almost impossible yo come by 

I can only get styrolite which is the less dense version consisting of very small 'nuggets' pressed together (and it's NOT very useable for terrain    ).

Well, at least I have found myself a source for foamcard..... 

[Operator5]

That's very nice. I like the modular part of it and I just may steal the idea for my next dungeon crawl game.

[iago]

I'm thinking now that I might need some bigger walls, so I might do up some 8" and 10" and maybe even 12" soon. If I do, I'll take some WiP photos and post 'em here.

If I could just get my hands on some insulation foam. Sadly, it's not legal to use it (for insulation) in DK, and thus it's almost impossible yo come by 

I can only get styrolite which is the less dense version consisting of very small 'nuggets' pressed together (and it's NOT very useable for terrain    ).

That sucks! I recognize the stuff you're talking about, totally useless for terrain.

[Doomhippie]

Nicely done. And yes, D&D and Dungeon Crawling are a lot more fun with something to look at.